Mr. Ram Kumar completed his B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from VIT in the year 2007, and completed M. Tech. in Engineering Mechanics from IIT Delhi in 2012. His field of interests are Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Advanced Vibration, Solar Thermal Application and Solar Water Desalination. He joined OTIS, Delhi in July 2007 and served there for nearly 2 years. Subsequently he took career transition from industrial to academic and joined ITS Engineering College, Greater Noida as Assistant Professor and before joining Jaypee University, Anoopshahr he briefly worked with Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, Guna as Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering.

Expertise: Engineering Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Finite Element Technique, Renewable Energy, and Solar Water Desalination

Publications:

1. Ram Kumar, Balaji Srinivasan, International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research Volume 8, Issue 8, August-2017, ISSN 2229-5518
2. Mishra, K., Arif, T., Kumar, R. et al.Effect of Al₂O₃ nanoparticles on ionic conductivity of PVdF-HFP/PMMA blend-based Na⁺-ion conducting nanocomposite gel polymer electrolyte. J Solid State Electrochem 23, 2401–2409 (2019).

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-019-04348-9

3. Ram Kumar, Dhananjay R. Mishra, Pankaj Dumka, Improving solar still performance: A comparative analysis of conventional and honeycomb pad augmented solar stills, Solar Energy, Volume 270, 2024, 112408, ISSN 0038-092X,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2024.112408.

4. Ram Kumar, Dhananjay R. Mishra, Pankaj Dumka,Development of a Time Marching Based Heat Transfer Algorithm to Predict the Distillate Output from a Conventional Solar Still – Available at SSRN 4474069

Workshops and Conferences:

1. One-week workshop on “NAAC Assessment and Accreditation Process”, organized by IQAC Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, Guna during July 25-29, 2022.
2. One-week AICTE sponsored FDP on “Recent Advances in Heat Transfer and Combustion Engineering”, organized by Mechanical Engineering Department, AMU, Aligarh during Nov 08-12, 2021.
3. One-week AICTE sponsored FDP on “Programming in Finite Element method and its Applications to Practical problems using ABAQUS”, organized by Civil Engineering Department NITTTR, Chandigarh, during Oct 04-08, 2021.
4. Three-day “National workshop on Additive Manufacturing” (NWAM 2021) organized by JUET, Guna during April 15-17, 2021.
5. National e-Conference on RTFDR 2021, NIT Rourkela with titled “Simulation of heat     transfer through dimpled tube by using OPenFOAM”.
6. ESI’s OpenFOAM and Scilab Conference 2018, Pune- India with titled “Heat transfer augmentation using twisted tape insert”  
7. Workshop on Data Analytics by Using R 2017, Institution of Engineers (India) 
8. Course on Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics in Sports, GIAN 2017, MNNIT Allahabad
9. Workshop on Introduction to CFD using OpenFOAM 2016, Institution of Engineers (India)
10. Course on CFD and Heat Trasfer with its application 2014, NIT Hamirpur
11. National Conference on IPRoMM 2014, ITS Engineering College Greater Noida
12. Workshop on Research Methodology in Fluid Mechanics 2013, MNNIT Allahabad